Weston Ochse

The Track of the Storm (The Cycle of the Aegis Trilogy #3)

Author: Ochse, Weston
Format: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: 2009
Publisher: Delirium Books

No summary available — not yet announced. All information is subject to change.

The Golden Thread (The Cycle of the Aegis Trilogy #2)

Author: Ochse, Weston
Format: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: July 2008
Publisher: Delirium Books

No summary available — not yet announced. All information is subject to change.

Scarecrow Gods

Author: Ochse, Weston
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 298pp.
Pub. Date: May 2008
Publisher: Delirium Books
Original Pub: April 2005 (Hardcover — Delirium)

Winner of The 2005 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.

Scarecrow Gods is the tale of Maxom Phinxs, a black man tortured and disfigured in Vietnam. Maxom, called the Maggot Man by the Tennessee locals, is feared and reviled because of his appearance. Even so, he takes under his wing a troubled young boy named Danny who’s fighting incest rumors to repair a shattered family, wondering every day if his sister will return to clear it all up.

In southern Arizona, John the New Baptist has created a new religion promising salvation. Most people believe in his strange ways. They don’t understand he is establishing a herd for his personal use. Only Simon, a faithless Alexian Brother, and a homeless man named Billy Bones who speaks in palindromes, anagrams and metaphor realize the evil and engage the Scarecrow Gods — a circle of immense saguaro dressed in Salvation Army clothes who speak wisdom in the wind from pursed coke bottle lips.

Maxom, Simon, Danny and Billy all fight and converge upon the center of evil as each journeys through the world of imagination, the Land of Inside-Out and across America, striving to defeat demons both personal and real to ultimately discover their deserved salvations.

Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way

Author: Ochse, Weston
Format: Trade Paperback/Chapbook
Type: Novella
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: January 10, 2007
Publisher: Bad Moon Books

The story of an autistic child who speaks in his own brand of Fred Flintstone language, his soulmate, Monray da Kine, intersteller bounty hunter, and the unique bond they form across space and time.

Space travel, zombie laborers, interstellar capitalism, Pearl Armadas, Jepps Doll entities and murderous swash-buckling assassins all join to create a multi-dimensional tale that has fans marveling at the completeness of this Ochse-created universe.

Recalled to Life (The Cycle of the Aegis Trilogy #1)

Author: Ochse, Weston
Format: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Page Count: 396pp.
Pub. Date: January 2007
Publisher: Delirium Books

Adventure with an ex-Special Forces, Hawaiian bouncer, a former NCAA football player turned cryptozoologist, a club girl whose desire to please is intertwined with her desire for pain, and a messianic Bastion whose need to understand the true nature of love means life or death for an entire world.

More than a horror novel, Recalled to Life begins a road trip into the heart of darkness, the first book in a trilogy that will become known as The Cycle of the Aegis.

Scarecrow Gods

Author: Ochse, Weston
Format: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Page Count: 396pp.
Pub. Date: April 2005
Publisher: Delirium Books
Also Pub: May 2008 (Trade Paperback — Delirium)

Winner of The 2005 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.

Scarecrow Gods is the tale of Maxom Phinxs, a black man tortured and disfigured in Vietnam. Maxom, called the Maggot Man by the Tennessee locals, is feared and reviled because of his appearance. Even so, he takes under his wing a troubled young boy named Danny who’s fighting incest rumors to repair a shattered family, wondering every day if his sister will return to clear it all up.

In southern Arizona, John the New Baptist has created a new religion promising salvation. Most people believe in his strange ways. They don’t understand he is establishing a herd for his personal use. Only Simon, a faithless Alexian Brother, and a homeless man named Billy Bones who speaks in palindromes, anagrams and metaphor realize the evil and engage the Scarecrow Gods — a circle of immense saguaro dressed in Salvation Army clothes who speak wisdom in the wind from pursed coke bottle lips.

Maxom, Simon, Danny and Billy all fight and converge upon the center of evil as each journeys through the world of imagination, the Land of Inside-Out and across America, striving to defeat demons both personal and real to ultimately discover their deserved salvations.

Appalachian Galapagos: A Scary Rednecks Collection

Author: Ochse, Weston and Whitman, David
Format: Hardcover
Type: Short Story Collection
Page Count: 284pp.
Pub. Date: January 2003
Publisher: Medium Rare Books

A second helping of disturbing, hilarious, nightmarish, and literary journeys through tales of the American Redneck.

Scary Rednecks: And Other Inbred Horrors

Author: Whitman, David and Ochse, Weston
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Short Story Collection
Page Count: 194pp.
Pub. Date: January 2000
Publisher: Darktales Publications

Scary Rednecks: And Other Inbred Horrors

Author: Whitman, David and Ochse, Weston
Format: Hardcover
Type: Short Story Collection
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: June 2006
Publisher: Delirium Books

From DarkTales Publications, one of the most disturbing, hilarious, nightmarish, and literary journeys through tales of the American Redneck.

23 tales of horror ranging from Dark Comedic Redneck Farces to Traditional Supernatural Southern Gothic. These inextricably linked extremes run the gamut from traditional monster tales to psychological studies. They include demons, devils, werewolves, cannabilism, voodoo priestesses, psychos, UFOs and more. This is more than an acrimonious study of Jeff Foxworthy jokes, a parody of Deliverance remakes and uninformed rural satire. It is a journey into the heart, mind and soul of the ideological universe of true paradigms of Americana: The Redneck.

Natural Selection

Author: Ochse, Weston
Format: Paperback Chapbook
Type: Novel
Page Count: 50pp.
Pub. Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Darktales Publications

Survival of the Fittest . . . working as the bouncer at a small bar along the coast of Florida, Kimo acts as umpire to the insane, dictating the fates of the unwhole in a violent world of drugs, sex, and despair. Until Kimo finds love, first in the form of a woman who begs to be abused, then within the alien mind of a savior known only as “Bastion” . . .

This story was later reworked into the novel Recalled to Life.

Muy Mal

Author: Ochse, Weston; Oliveri, Michael and Urbancik, John
Format: Online Blog
Type: Serialized Stories
Page Count: N/A
Pub. Date: December 2005 — April 2007
Original Pub: Online Shared World using WordPress

From the Authors of Muy Mal:
Muy Mal is a shared world created by Michael Oliveri, John Urbancik, and Weston Ochse. It’s a world very much like our own, similar in time and place, but just about thirty degrees off of reality. This is a world in which magic never ceased to exist; a world that is a very bad place.

Each writer will explore their own corner of this world, though readers can expect some crossover between tales. Characters may make cameo appearances, for example, and major events will affect every story. This is not collaboration so much as it is cooperation, and readers will be welcome to witness as much or as little of the world a they see fit.

Each story will be serialized, and each writer may spread their work across several serialized pieces at a time. An overall title serves as an umbrella for each writer’s work, and each individual tale will carry its own title as it unfolds chapter by chapter. These titles are:

Chronicles of the Black Bishop by Weston Ochse
Asphalt and Alchemy by Michael Oliveri
Seeker by John Urbancik

Scary Rednecks: The Appalachian Omnibus

Author: Ochse, Weston and Whitman, David
Format: Hardcover
Type: Short Story Collection
Page Count: 284pp.
Pub. Date: November 2004
Publisher: Delirium Books

Straight from the cellars of Delirium Books, comes this once in a lifetime deluxe edition combining the collections Scary Rednecks and Appalachian Galapagos. With two original stories populated by the 26 people who purchased the book, this volume will be the rarest of the rare. Limited to 26 leather-boundcopies.